Webmaster’s Comments: Proximity to a natural gas pipeline is no guarantee the resource will be available to community residents, as is evident by the natural gas spur line to Verso Paper in Bucksport, and proximity of the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline to Baileyville, Princeton, and Calais. However, Bath is densely populated, making it a good prosopect for profitable pipeline distribution. Unfortunately — and even though natural gas is plentiful in Maine via the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline — most communities are small and distant from the transmission pipeline, making them unprofitable communities for natural gas distribution.

Second Congress of Councils closed to public and press (Feb 17) — The Jamestown Press, Jamestown, RI

Webmaster’s Comments: Likewise, the Government of Canada has been emphatic and unrelenting in its position to prohibit LNG ships from transiting into and through Passamaquoddy Bay. There is no probability for Downeast LNG's success.

Webmaster’s Comments: Regardless of the intensity of the quake, there is ironic prescience in its location — nearly exactly beneath the proposed Downeast LNG pier. The Downeast LNG project that is now over 1 year & 7 months late in answering FERC's technical questions arising out of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Those answers were due on 2009 July 6.

Downeast LNG's Dean Girdis argues that LNG terminals need to be in "protected waters." By looking at the LNG terminals that have been constructed in locations scoffed at by Girdis — Canaport LNG, shoreside on open waters in NB, Canada; EcoEléctrica, shoreside on open waters in Peñuelas, PR; Gulf Gateway, miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico; and Northeast Gateway and Neptune LNG, both miles offshore in Massachusetts Bay — his obstinancy to move to an appropriate, industry-compliant location has resulted in his flailing, failing project.

Webmaster’s Comments: The Kenai LNG export terminal has been the only US LNG liquefaction & export facility. Now that nearby natural gas supply from existing conventional wells is waning — and since Alaska's vast natural gas supplies are not available due to lack of pipeline infrastructure — the facility is ceasing to export. Other news reports also imply that competition from world LNG oversupply may also be a determining factor.

Webmaster’s Comments: The US cannot be competitive selling LNG overseas? Tell that to Sabine Pass LNG, Cove Point LNG, and Freeport LNG — all of whom are planning on selling US-source LNG to overseas customers. The energy security impropriety of selling US natural gas overseas is another matter.

Webmaster’s Comments: US terminals are buying Trinidad & Tobago LNG at long-term contract prices, and then re-exporting it to Asia for a higher price. No one can blame T&T for seeking new contract arrangements with its US customers. New contracts may put the kibosh on US re-exporting.

Webmaster’s Comments: This article does not take into account the latest information from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA "AEO2011 EARLY RELEASE OVERVIEW" indicates that, compared to 2010, natural gas imports from Canada will increase in 2011, and US LNG demand will decrease in 2011.

First ship will arrive at Gulf LNG in early summer (Feb 4) — SunHerald, Gulfport, MS

Webmaster’s Comments: With the pre-existing 10 LNG import terminals largely idle due to the domestic 100-year natural gas glut, one wonders what Gulf LNG plans to do with any imports. Perhaps another LNG export project is in the making.

Natural gas shortages reported across several US states (Feb 4) — Digital Journal

The trembler's epicenter (the small yellow dot at the mouth of Mill Cove) is located almost exactly at the proposed Downeast LNG terminal pier.The yellow line in the water represents the international boundary.

Webmaster’s Comments: Contrary to claims by Downeast LNG, Port Dolphin Energy's LNG terminal demonstrates that LNG import facilities do not need to be sited up long inland waterways where hazards are greater. Terminals and transit routes should be located according to LNG industry best practices — where, in the case of an LNG release, LNG vapors cannot impact civilian populations. (For more on LNG terminal siting best practices, see LNG Terminal Siting Standards Organization).

More than $5 billion in projects planned or proposed in Jackson County — The Mississippi Press